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The article presents the role of memory, which is a base of book Singer. Landscapes of memory. They have been cited in the thesis theorists who deal with the issue scientifically memory, among other things, Pierre Nora. Biography Nobel prize winner based on the traces of the past - both material and the subjective memories. Agata Tuszyńska also analyzed literary creation Singer. It was noted how much writing Tuszyńska is associated with her own identity.

This is a Czech translation of ‘“Vergangenheitsbewältigung” auf Tschechisch: Der Holocaust im tschechischen Samizdat’, which is published in Peter Hallama and Stephan Stach (eds), Gegengeschichte: Zweiter Weltkrieg und Holocaust im ostmitteleuropäischen Dissens (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2015, pp. 237–60). The author analyses representations of the Holocaust in Czech dissident literature published as samizdat in the 1970s and 1980s. He concentrates on historical writings, but also considers journalistic contributions, memoirs, and works of belles-lettres, as well as translations of publications. In particular, the article considers two aspects that highlight the difficulties one faced and continues to face when trying to fully integrate the Holocaust into Czech national history. First, the Holocaust was often understood by the dissidents as evidence of the inhuman nature of totalitarian regimes. This interpretation, however, led to placing the persecution of the Jews by the Nazi regime on the same level as the persecution of the Czechs by the Nazi and Communist regimes. Second, if there was a reassessment or questioning of the Czech national master narrative, then topics such as home-grown antisemitism or the Holocaust were not addressed. The dissidents admitted that Czechoslovakia also had its question of guilt, but they related it to the expulsion of the German minority after the Second World War. The Holocaust, by contrast, did not generate any similar debate among the dissidents. The behaviour of Czechs during the Second World War, the attitude towards Jews, and domestic antisemitism were thus not questioned at all. The Holocaust has, according to the author, therefore tended to be overlooked or, at best, mentioned only incidentally in writing about twentieth-century Czech history – whether the authors published their texts in state-owned publishing houses or in samizdat.

Bilewicz applies notions borrowed from the psychology of emotions to understand collective (im)memory in Poland, with a particular focus on defensive reactions to new historical data on Poles’ negative behaviour. Based on James Gross’ concept of emotion regulation, Bilewicz elaborates a model of downregulating collective moral emotions (such as guilt and shame). He then applies this model to the debate on the Jedwabne pogrom. He also outlines systematic social psychological studies that support his proposed emotion downregulation model. The article concludes with a discussion of alternative ways of presenting negative history – ways that overcome those defensive emotion regulatory processes.

Miklós Radnóti’s fate, as well as the canonization and mythologization of his oeuvre, have led to ever renewed painful and contradictory questions, far more than about any other author or work, so that in relation to him any assertion is a simplification. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the author’s birth in this issue of our journal we endeavour to address this enormous and what one might be called evangelical life. There is only one fact that we can know for sure: that we have much in common with his fate and his example not only in human terms, but as Hungarians, as Jews, as Hungarian Jews, and, in our case also as a Jewish cultural journal.
It is in relation to this undertaking that the chief editor of Múlt és Jövô wrote an open letter to Miklós Radnóti’s widow - the muse of Hungarian poetry - asking her to change her stand and allow her husband’s verses to appear in the pages of a Jewish journal on this occasion of the special centennial issue in his honor. But why should we lament that ultimately in this issue, which has been put together with so much caring, in place of Miklós Radnóti’s poems, only their titles can appear.

Moshe Sertels was a son of Issachar and Sarah. He was born circa
mid-16th century in Prague. He was a teacher and worked as a translator and
exegete. Sertels wrote several texts that attracted wide interest. One of them
was a work titled Sefer Beer Moshe, a bilingual commentary on the Torah and
five megillot. The construction of the text, its clarity and intelligibility, made
it an excellent tool for teaching the Torah in cheders (e.g. such usage of this
text was noted in the books of the Cracovian brotherhood Talmud Torah).
The article presents the figure of the author and his literary oeuvre with particular
focus on the Sefer Beer Moshe as a work that served generations of Ashkenazi
Jews to enhance their knowledge of the Torah. The author discusses characteristics
of the text and underlines several issues in regard to the Yiddish language in
the form that was used in Prague at the turn of the 17th century.

This article presents the history of the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation in Poland from when it was founded 30 years ago. The Foundation was established by Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder, businessman, diplomat and philanthropist. It was the first organization to initiate Jewish educational activities during the period of political changes in Poland. The Foundation’s activities focused mainly on education, both formal and informal. During early ’90’s people in Poland started to discovered their Jewish roots and thanks to the RLSF it was possible to learn and understand Jewish history, religion and culture. The author describes projects organized by the Foundation as well as its development and significance in the rebirth of Jewish life in Poland. Among the Foundation’s most important projects are the Lauder-Morasha School Complex in Warsaw, the summer educational camps for families and youths, a genealogical project, and the Lauder e-School. The Foundation has also made a huge contribution and provided support to many organizations, institutions and Jewish Communities throughout Poland.

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